Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made on the effectiveness of the NHS Injury Cost Recovery scheme.

Since 1999, the Injury Cost Recovery scheme has recovered around £2.8 billion with annual recoveries currently around £200 million (£175 million in England, £15 million in Scotland; and £10 million in Wales). The money recovered goes directly to the trust providing the treatment.

Each year, the Department updates the regulations to reflect any inflationary increase which maintains the real-terms value of income recovered on behalf of NHS trusts.

The Department will continue to monitor income recovered by the Injury Cost Recovery Scheme each year.